Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
FLOWER SONGS.

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Harkee, pretty Golden Rod, leaning DER the
brook, .2t
How I wish that at your face might catch q
81 look! ! G51. r.
Yet youth never let me peep, tho know tits
Hid completely out Of sight by your yellow
/ zy hair, a., f1F> - j. ',l~.3 q
Shake those sunny tresses back, why are yoa so
shy? ..~.
None to see except myself and butterfly! s4-ep
Ills so still and shady here where the willows
Won't you let me have one peep, pretty Golden
rod? ct
Sleepy little Gentians, it is time to rise,
For the sun is climbing fast up the rosy skies,
And the happy brooklets are laughing where
Don't YOU hear them in your dreams as you lie
Lift those fair fringed lashes up, shut so very
tight, ..s
Hiding from your sweet blue eyes all the gold
en- light,
What c an you be dreaming that you slumber 80,
Sleepy little Gentians 1 should like to know!
-GERTRUDE ALGER in Boston Transcript.
NATIONAL DAIRY CONVENTION.
The National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Association will hold their annual con-
vention this year at Manchester, Iowa.
in November. This will be an impor-
tant convention for interests which pro-
duce an annual revenue of over $500,
100000. Col. r. M. ,Littler, who gives
more life and energy to this enterprise
than any other five living men, is trav-
cling through the Eastern cities and
States stirring up and arranging for this
display of dairy machinery ever ex-
hibited in any place or country. The
dairy men and interests connected with
the association all over the State should
arrange to attend and make an exhibit
of their products. Though this is an
immense interest, yet it is growing and
enlarging, and those interested should
exert their influence to protect it's pros
perity and to avail themselves of all val
liable improvements. And one of the
ways this can best be done is to attend
and thoroughly examine the machinery
where it can be compared.
CANADA TH1sTLEs.
It has been held by some agric ultu-
rists that the Canada thistle will not
thrive on prairie soil, but this probably
is an error. Mr.. II. 81. Haaf writes to
the Farmers Review that there is dan
ger of their spreading all over the
country. He says there is large
patch of themi in the suberbs of Chicago,
which has, from single stalk, increased,
and spread to several blocks,
in two or three years. He also says
that eighteen miles north of Peoria, ILL.,,
Canada thistles are abundant, and that
he knows personally that Southwest.
Kansas and Northwest Indian Territory
are spotted with them. They are also
becoming nuisance in the neighbor-
hood of Aurora, III. If any one passed
their boyhood days barefoot, as we did
in Maine, where the Canada thistle was
they will need no urging the
vigilant destruction of this worst of all
weeds. 1t will never have its equal
for unmitigated meaness.
TRANSMITTING OAKS.
The common impression is that an
oak is difficult to transplant. Where
grown in nursery from the acorn we
know of no tree that can be transplant
ed with more safety. To illustrate,
we planted last spring small trees of
over thirty species and varieties of the
oak, native and foreign. Since plant
ing them we have had no rain to wet
the roots of plants, and the soil was
peculiarly dry from the effects of the
drouth of last year. Literally hun
dreds of small trees were put out at
the time of planting the oaks and all
have had the same path. To-day after
a burning southwest wind that has
dried up large part of our replants
after they had made some growth-the
oaks are all fresh and green without
the loss Of a single plant. We may
add that the few oaks on our dry and
parched lawns are standing grief bet
ter than the hard maple,
MOIST AIR AND NO RAIN.
Mr.. Robert Douglass has been at
Lamanda Park, Los Angeles Co., CAL,
since early spring. He writes that
there has been no rain this summer,
yet every tree, plant, and flower,
seems to do we'll without irrigation ex-
cept of the citrus family. The air that
floats over the trees and plants of this
region is saturated with the breath of
the Pacific, and the thought occurs that
there may be something in the popular
but unscientific notion that the foliage
and even bark of plants may absorb
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